General inquiries: needledrop@thetonearm.com
Music, Books, Videos, and Other Media Submissions
We're always interested in devising features for The Tonearm based on the cool stuff our community is working on. Send it our way!
That said, please be familiar with the type of things we cover. Our tastes are broad, but we favor outside-of-the-mainstream efforts and those who proudly walk an independent path.
Click here for The Tonearm's media submission email address.
Please don't add us to your mailing lists all willy-nilly. Maybe ask first. Also, refrain from sending attachments (MP3s, PDFs, and so on)—we'll delete those emails upon arrival, so include download or preview links instead. And, if you're sending music, we'd love a Bandcamp download code for your release. It's not a deal-breaker, but it's a great way to send music, and if we write about it, we'll post something in the ‘Supported by’ section of your Bandcamp release page.
There's a decent possibility that you won't get a reply—please don't take it personally. But we do check out everything that's sent and will say "hello" if it's something The Tonearm would like to cover.
Most of all, a huge 'thank you' to all our artist friends for putting something new and heartfelt into a world that needs more of that. You rock.
Write for The Tonearm
The Tonearm is always on the lookout for additions to our crafty team of contributing writers. We're open to word-slingers who enjoy doing interviews and features on artists, broadly defined: musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, authors, fascinating thinkers, and so on. We also dig perspective pieces that put a pin on a cultural moment's historical or subjective context. The Tonearm does compensate our writers, though, at this early moment, not as much as we'd like. If this sounds like your bag, please get in touch.